SALIENCE AND THE GOVERNMENT PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS
This paper examines how behavioral biases caused by salient events affect the government provision of public goods. We develop a theory in which competing communities lobby the government for allocations of a local public good. Salient events bias community demands for the good, which results in ine...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Inc.
2019
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| Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |